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- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: Virus design
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.151032.2789@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <ZmLawB1w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:10:32 GMT
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- In article <ZmLawB1w165w@ruth.UUCP> rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
- >Imagine what would have happened with a PROPERLY written "antibody"
- >released into the Internet after the worm slipped out of rtm's fingers...
- >If the virus could spread in 12 hours the way it did, what would a
- >(PROPERLY written!!) antibody do? (of course, that ignores the fact
- >that many sites went off the internet....)
-
- If I understand the Internet Worms methodology correctly, it would have been
- very much the same. Morris used bugs in programs to get his (wholly self-
- contained) worm running on the new system. Most, if not all, virus detection
- software assumes that the virus is not a self-contained entity, but a code
- fragment that lives w/in another program executable.
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